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Unit Pictures

2015 Update:

Here is the 2015 edition, featuring all the units at their official sizes as they appeared in the StarCraft Field Manual, which I provided the size charts for. This is the full size link, preview below:

I will continue the charts with all of the extra units independently as well.

Here's a low-quality preview (outdated now), you can download the full size from my deviantart link above. (Though the full size is a 10MB image, watch out).

Below was my original text.

I'm creating a reference of Starcraft units from the side, to scale. The whole thing will be in the format of a large image with all the units lined up to scale, but I'll also create a Flash version where you can zoom in and out. So, I'll be drawing each and every unit in profile for use in this reference.

Does anyone have any interest in this project or in which units I should do next?

EDIT: I'll keep updating the most recent version of the lineup into the first post as I go. The final Flash version should have the following features:
-Ability to compare any two units side-by-side
-Ability to scroll to zoom in and out along the different sized units, from Larva to Leviathan
-Ability to check whether to look at all units or only those of a certain race

Here was the poster-format image for WoL. I first made this thread on October 9, 2011, and finished the WoL poster on November 9, 2012.

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This is awesome. I'd love to help out in any way. I guess the next units you would do are marine, zealot, and hydralisk. You can get references for those basically anywhere. I also think a zealot suit should augment a protoss' height. Zeratul is pretty short in story mode, but Protoss are supposed to be like 10 ft. tall. Would be a nice way to fix this inconsistency.

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Wow, thanks for being so helpful. Yeah, help with cutting the units out of their backgrounds would be great, no, unfortunately I don't have Frontline (I was going to go off of Starcraft Ghost for the scales that I could, but that's obviously incomplete), and thanks for that thread, I'm sure it'll be really helpful.
Hopefully my attempt is differentiated enough from past ones by including original artwork for all the units. On that note here's the Zealot, the Marine, and the Ghost, and here's the current lineup:

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I'd like to help out. There is an old picture from the StarCraft vanilla beta days of a zealot squaring off against a goliath, which seems to scale; and another of a goliath against a grid background, measuring some fifteen squares tall. I'm not sure of they're meters or feet.

Aaand sold.

Be it through hallowed grounds or lands of sorrow
The Forger's wake is bereft and fallow

Is the residuum worth the cost of destruction and maiming;
Or is the shaping a culling and exercise in taming?

The road's goal is the Origin of Being
But be wary through what thickets it winds.

Re: Unit Pictures

Originally Posted by Visions of Khas

I'd like to help out. There is an old picture from the StarCraft vanilla beta days of a zealot squaring off against a goliath, which seems to scale; and another of a goliath against a grid background, measuring some fifteen squares tall. I'm not sure of they're meters or feet.

Yeah, I know the image you're talking about, it's pretty awesome.
Both the zealot and the goliath are a bit hunched over, but, based on it, and Starcraft Ghost, and what makes sense with a guy sitting in the cockpit (see attachment), my Goliath is about 15 feet tall, standing up straight.
I also drew a Stinger, so, here's where we're at right now:

...and the Zealot and the Goliath do match up fairly well with that SC1 render.